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| Re: Comic relief - by AWE on 11 April 2001 @ 05:54 PM Electric Boogie * 12,133 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the U.S. in 1997 * 1,381 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the rest of the world in 1997 * 21.5 -- percent increase in U.S. electricity consumption from 1990 to 1999 * 43 -- percent decrease in utility funding for energy efficiency from 1993 to 1998 * 90 -- percent of total U.S. coal consumption used to generate electricity in 1998 * 33 -- percent of all mercury emissions in the U.S. that came from coal power plants in 1999 * 30,000 -- number of lives cut short in the U.S. each year due to pollution from electric utilities * 37 million -- number of cars necessary to produce the amount of smog-forming pollution that comes from U.S. coal power plants each year * 7.5 -- percent of total U.S. energy consumption from renewable sources in 1998 * 94 -- percent of total U.S. renewable energy consumption from hydropower and bio-mass (trash and wood incinerators) * $216.7 billion -- revenue of the U.S. electric utility industry in 1999 * $124 billion -- approximate combined revenues of all the governments in Africa * 90 -- percent of total electricity used by a standard incandescent lightbulb that is wasted as heat * 1,000 -- reduction in pounds of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by replacing one incandescent lightbulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, over the bulb's lifetime (Parent Article) |
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